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Si-Chong Chen1, Bo Wang2, Angela T Moles3
1Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Wellcome Trust Millennium Building, Wakehurst, West Sussex, UK.
Ecology Letters
|May 4, 2021
Abstract:
A literature synthesis concluded that small mammals have the greatest impact on post-dispersal removal of intermediate-sized seeds (Dylewski et al. 2020). However, this study failed to consider the duration of seed exposure to predators. Re-analyses of the corrected dataset revealed only a weak effect of seed mass on seed removal.

